How to Make Chocolate Lace Cake Wraps

In a recent video, I showed you how to make simple, one-dimensional lace doilies. And in this video, I take lace to a higher level - literally - by wrapping it around cakes for a wonderfully tasty and romantic effect. Below is a taste of what you'll see in the video, though I only show the wrapping of one tier.

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Very interesting video! It does not appear to be as hard to create as one would think by seeing the finished product! This is something I can't wait to try! 

Jamie - It ISN'T that hard and there are so many possible variations. I'll be showing some more colorful styles in upcoming videos.

I tried my first cake last week on a six inch cake. It set before I got it finished and had to start over. what kind of chocolate does best? I really love this design. Your work is fabulous.

Cyndra - You want to use a premium chocolate - such as couverture - with cocoa butter as the only fat in it. NO coating chocolate or candy melts, and not Hershey's. Coating/candy and other cheap forms of chocolate have other types of fat in them that will set faster. But a wide range of chocolates work fine (Ghirardelli, Callebaut, Valrhona, etc.) as long as your room is not too cold. It takes me about 1/2 hour to pipe a strip for an 8-inch cake, and the chocolate will not set up in that time if you do as noted above. But you should try to work as fast as possible, since the chocolate is not tempered. You need to get it in the fridge very soon after it is piped to suppress any bloom (gray haze) from forming on the chocolate.

I can't wait to try this! Thanks for the video!

Great, Dot. Let me know how it goes.

I did and i think a very easy technique todo pretty well,, , anything you say is not enought to show my apreciation for all your videos Julia thanks!

Thanks so much, Oriele!